Posted on 07/05/2024 4:26:49 AM PDT by tired&retired
According to WebMD, "Limited research suggests that compared with women who don’t use hormonal birth control, those who do are more likely report feeling depressed, anxious, and angry. But those symptoms don’t make the list of common side effects."
I've been researching stages of psychological development and personality development. This includes the balance between masculine and feminine and the confusion apparent in current society.
While there are many influencing factors, including genetic, epigenetic, environmental influences both psychological and biochemical, my question relates to hormonal influences through biochemicals effecting the endocrine system.
I've been following research relating to bass in parts of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania where the male bass population are all developing female organs. This change is presumed to be a result of all the chemicals, including birth control pills, that are discharged through the sewers and treatment plants discharging into the river. Waste water treatment does not remove the drugs that people take and discharge through their urine into the water supply.
If this is true, could the chemical influence of birth control pills also shift females toward a masculine gender identity? We now know that trans treatments are causing imbalances that are similar to Roid Rage.
This is a question, not an assumption. I'd love to hear Freeper's thoughts on the subject.
Well, there is this:
An increasing number of children are born with intersex variation (IV; ambiguous genitalia/hermaphrodite, pseudohermaphroditism, etc.). Evidence shows that endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the environment can cause reproductive variation through dysregulation of normal reproductive tissue differentiation, growth, and maturation if the fetus is exposed to EDCs during critical developmental times in utero. Animal studies support fish and reptile embryos exhibited IV and sex reversal when exposed to EDCs. Occupational studies verified higher prevalence of offspring with IV in chemically exposed workers (male and female). Chemicals associated with endocrine-disrupting ability in humans include organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, bisphenol A, phthalates, dioxins, and furans. Intersex individuals may have concurrent physical disorders requiring lifelong medical intervention and experience gender dysphoria. - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.4137/EHI.S39825
And:
The Age of Chemistry solved all kinds of problems, from flexible new materials to more productive agriculture. The benefits were obtained at the cost of many insidious problems. These include damage to critical ecosystems and a variety of toxicity-related diseases and developmental disorders.
Such issues were highlighted by research showing that polluted ponds could turn male frogs into females. Interestingly, some of the affected frogs were capable of reproducing but produced all male offspring that had the effect of crashing the population,
Such problems are not restricted to wildlife occupying heavily polluted areas. They are also found in humans leading their lives in apparently clean homes and non toxic environments.
One casualty of under-the-radar hormone disruptors is gender development.
Hormone Disruptors and Gender Development
Humans may be be vulnerable to hormone disruptors in ways that resemble the effects on frogs inhabiting polluted wetlands.
The culprits are products, such as cosmetics, that are not ordinarily considered dangerous, or polluting. One example concerns pthalates present in packaging plastics.
Another candidate is pharmaceuticals. This phenomenon emerged in connection with the contraceptive drug diethylstilbesterol. Mothers who were unaware of their pregnancy continued to take the drug. It was found to have masculinizing effects on the brains of female fetuses. The limited evidence available indicated that when they matured, such females were less interested in caring for children and more interested in female romantic partners...
Recent evidence indicates that thalates from plastic and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are one of many factors predicting gender dysphoria, particularly in the case of male-to-female transgenders...
Gender dysphoria is certainly not reducible to any single cause, chemical or otherwise. Indeed, there are several psychological correlates. These include any kind of trauma experienced during childhood. Another possible factor is abusive parenting. - Nigel Barber Ph.D.: The Human Beast, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201911/gender-fluidity-and-hormone-disruptors
And besides nature, there are affects of nurture (raising children Biblically versus as with the Left can influence proclivities to some degree):
Epigenetics refers to how things like diet, physical activity, and stress levels can change not only our own health, but that of our children, grandchildren, and other descendants. - https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/about-epigenetics.html
The word “epigenetic” literally means “in addition to changes in genetic sequence.” The term has evolved to include any process that alters gene activity without changing the DNA sequence, and leads to modifications that can be transmitted to daughter cells (although experiments show that some epigenetic changes can be reversed). There likely will continue to be debate over exactly what the term means and what it covers.
Today, a wide variety of illnesses, behaviors, and other health indicators already have some level of evidence linking them with epigenetic mechanisms, including cancers of almost all types, cognitive dysfunction, and respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, autoimmune, and neurobehavioral illnesses. Known or suspected drivers behind epigenetic processes include many agents, including heavy metals, pesticides, diesel exhaust, tobacco smoke, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, hormones, radioactivity, viruses, bacteria, and basic nutrients. - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1392256/
SANBONMATSU:...in epigenetics, it's interesting in that, you know, a lot of things people wonder, is it nature or is it nurture? Were you born this way or is it a choice? And epigenetics is this new field that sort of sits in between where basically the environment reprograms genes, and those switches stay permanently. So it sort of sits right in between nature and nurture.ZOMORODI: So we're all born with our DNA. But our environment can change the way our DNA is expressed. So just like Karissa said, epigenetics reprograms our genes, deciding the path our DNA takes.
SANBONMATSU: And for transgender studies, there are a lot of reports that sometimes it's passed down through the generations and sometimes it's not. So there are a lot of features of it that really just scream, it must be epigenetics. So that's kind of where we're looking now. - https://www.npr.org/transcripts/852274857
Epigenetics Is Implicated in the Basis of Gender Incongruence: An Epigenome-Wide Association Analysis - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.701017/full
Of course, the Left seeks to excuse acting out our sinful nature, with its proclivities to sin, which can vary in both degree and kind, all of which God knows, and deals accordingly, but yielding to such cannot be excused.
Not cause, but influence. For instance,
“Gender Identity”. Stop using left-wing terms if you want me to read what you write.
They love the Darkness and are repelled by the Light unless drawn by God.
“So are birth control pills in the drinking water responsible for the pandemic of gender dysphoria in humans?”
It does not appear to restricted to those on the public water supply.
Excellent post.
While not all correlation is causation, all causation, if it exists, creates correlation.
Thus, correlation is a good flag to indicate where to investigate further.
If you proposed a clinical trial, today, to induce temporary sterility in teenaged females by giving them synthetic hormones without measuring pituitary function, GI function, and mental/emotional state over say, ten years, you would probably be arrested.
Such a trial would, of course, never be allowed.
You are on the right track in understanding how hormones shape the brain and drive development.
A lot of people are jaded because of the over-saturation of trans this and trans that and presume that all trans people are crazy, abused, groomed, etc.
That is not the case.
Whenever someone claims to be trans, I ask them what their underlying genetic disorder is: that shuts a bunch of them up. I call them trans-trenders; they are playing pretend and glomming on to my child’s extremely painful and rare condition for social cred.
It’s no different than the fakers who claim they have cancer and start a go fund me.
Wow, excellent post.
There are two other possible epigenitic influences. While the first does not fit within Christianity, it is consistent with eastern beliefs.
That would be the gender of the soul in the last incarnation. There is sufficient evidence to support reincarnation. What would happen if a soul incarnates in a physical body of the opposite gender?
The other cause I have encountered several times. I first discoveted thos while doing an exorcism years ago on a gay man. There was an attached spirit that was female. She was a strong willed woman who over rode his will and became his identity.
The end result was a severe identity crisis and depression after she was removed.
This cause I have encountered several times, but it does not account for all.
I have noticed that there are more earthbound or stuck spirits without physical bodies here now than there were thirty years ago. It’s a sign of the times we are in.
The other area I am researching relates to autism. It’s a shift to a super masculine consciousness that appears to develop during the third month of pregnancy during development of the thalamus and hippocampus. Again, the question of “why” still exists.
I 100% agree with your last post.
I have encountered this when working with gays and lesbians many times.
They left the shelter of the family home with parents and went off to college. They were very impressionable, searching for an identity of their own.
They had a gay experience and were immediately validated by the gay community, which is a strong self validating community. This is like serving wine to an alcoholic as they are searching for identity validation.
This would seem to be at least 99% correct.
https://youtu.be/IH6ep9HE4Ik
Some women take them for other medical reasons.
TRUE
And unless prescribers are coming clean about these issues with parents and adolescents, once again informed consent is not available.
What a coinkydink.
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:26-27)If it is contrary to the Bible, then it is delusion, but deceiving spirits who once inhabited a person and thus knows all abut such could inhabit a later person, thereby providing the appearance of reincarnation. Such deceiving can also convey both hidden knowledge (Acts 16:16) as well as deception which is what their purpose is, (1 Kings 22:22) as a test for souls as to what they will choose, as are the false religions they teach. (cf. Judges 3:4)
Thus, as with your delusions of deceiving spirits, from being “born again” meaning "raising your consciousness frequency through prayer and meditation to levels where you perceive directly with your consciousness beyond your physical body..." ;
stating that "Humans are souls that are planted here in the darkness of the earth to sprout and grow. They are a crop of consciousness that begins as an individual seed and then grows to be One with God. They exist within God already, but are unaware of it. God’s Higher Consciousness is a purifying fire for all things unclean;"
and of a Postmortem "semester break" "lower level of Heaven the recycling level for souls that are growing but have not grown to transcend self or the physical body" to when "our soul actually expands to where the entire earth exists within you;"
with the “lifted or raised up” Jesus spoke of being raising your brain wave frequency above 40 Hz;
and that what Paul was referring to in Hebrews 9:28 being the soul absorbing the Light energy of Heaven causing it to expand through the stored memories in their soul in reverse sequence; And you praying non stop next to women who did not eat anything for for the 3 weeks, you could see the liquid swirling golden Light around the woman... "the Holy Spirit came upon her in a lower strength of Light and cleansed her soul for 3 weeks before she was pure enough to be in the Light of Heaven."
and that "Your soul actually expands to where the entire earth exists within you. This is what Jesus experienced when He came out of the wilderness and stated, “My Father and I are One;”
and that if you, the non-retired psychic healer, sometimes merely touches a sin stored many feet from a person’s physical body in their soul then it often knocks the person off their feet. And you get freezing cold when some people die near as you as they are draining his soul energy to expand;
and with stored memories in people’s souls being about 15 feet from the physical body, expanded via soul absorbing the Light energy of Heaven, which you "read;"
to stating that men as Moses, and Saul (Paul) were among the biggest sinners;
and that the earth’s dipolar field (masculine and feminine) is what is behind souls being unshackled, being "the cause of all the gender identity issues and high divorce rate in the recent years." (yet this has been decreasing for 3,000 years, and over the last 200 years, the magnetic field has lost around 9% of its strength on a global average, during which Great Awakenings took place with its emphasis on holiness, while the present gender perversity is in certain countries and relative to the degree of Western influence, and which is concomitant with prosperity, as it was in Sodom: Ezek. 16:47, 48)
Overall, you are akin to Gnosticism or Swedenborgism and Roy Masters with their mixture of truth and deception, of esoteric understanding that contradicts what is actually taught in Scripture using self-evident rules of interpretation (context, grammar, etc.). "Swedenborg's approach to proving the veracity of his theological teachings was to use voluminous quotations from the Old Testament and the New Testament to demonstrate agreement with the Bible, and this is found throughout his theological writings."
In addition, there are many psychic healers who actually did heal, such as Arigo: Brazil's Surgeon of the Rusty Knife. Or you can compete with the claimed miracles of William Branham
The test is what doctrinal compromise will one pay for healing. No one is saved by heat like a furnace cleansing for 3 weeks on earth to be made pure enough to be in the Light of Heaven. Etc. Which is akin to RC Purgatory, versus Scripture, in which wherever Scripture clearly speaks of the next conscious reality for those who die in effectual obedient justifying faith (which is imputed for righteousness) then it is with the Lord, at death or His return (Lk. 23:43 [cf. 2Cor. 12:4; Rv. 2:7]; Phil 1:23; 2Cor. 5:8 [“we”]; 1Cor. 15:51ff'; 1Thess. 4:17) Note in the latter case all believers were assured that if the Lord returned, which they expected in their lifetime, so would they “ever be with the Lord.” (1Thes. 4:17) though they were still undergoing growth in grace, as was Paul, who expressed he would go to be with the Lord at death, yet was not already perfect. (Phil. 3:10ff)
And thereby you further manifest yourself as being a false teacher, who, "preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, " "another spirit," "another gospel!" (2 Corinthians 11:3-4) For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:13-14)
I too did not believe in reincarnation until after I died and returned to this body. I accept the Bible as the truth, but recognize that it is also mistranslated and often misunderstood.
Most agree that Paul did not write the book of Hebrews. Paul’s name is never mentioned, and the style is different from Paul’s letters. Moreover, many now consider Hebrews to be a sermon rather than a letter. The book lacks the kind of opening salutation that appears in all of Paul’s letters (compare Hebrews 1:1-4 and 1 Corinthians 1:1-3). The book calls itself “a word of exhortation,” and this was a common way to refer to sermons (Hebrews 13:22; Acts 13:15).
Since the author includes greetings from Italians, who are apparently away from home, it seems likely that the book was sent to Christians in Italy and perhaps specifically to Rome.
Since the third century, Paul’s authorship has been questioned, and the consensus among most modern scholars is that the author is unknown. The 1611 edition of the King James Bible ends the Epistle to the Hebrews with “Written to the Hebrewes, from Italy, by Timothie”, and “translated carefully” into Greek by Luke, a thing demonstrated by its stylistic similarity with Luke’s Acts.
Doubts about Pauline authorship were raised around the end of the second century, predominantly in the West. Tertullian attributed the epistle to Barnabas. Both Gaius of Rome[
and Hippolytus[10] excluded Hebrews from the works of Paul, the latter attributing it to Clement of Rome. Origen noted that others had claimed Clement or Luke as the writer, but he tentatively accepted Pauline origin of the thought in the text and the explanation of Clement of Alexandria, saying that “the thoughts are those of the apostle, but the diction and phraseology are those of some one who remembered the apostolic teachings, and wrote down at his leisure what had been said by his teacher”, as quoted by Eusebius.
In Hebrews 2:3, the author states that this “great salvation” was “declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard”. This is usually taken to indicate the author was a second-generation Christian.
The early texts of Hebrews ended at 9:26. You will note that the scripture you cite, Hebrews 9:27 was added at a later date.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_46
Apothnesko, the word used in Hebrews 9:27, is also the verb the apostle Paul uses six times in his discussion of baptism in Romans 6:1-11. To understand the implications of Hebrews 9:27, we need to consider this passage.
What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase? Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it? Or, don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore, through baptism we were buried with Him into His death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too may live an entirely new life. For if we have become united with Him in a death like His, we will certainly also be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old natures were crucified with Him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin. For the person who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with Him, for we know that the Messiah, who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him. For when He died, He died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that He is alive, He lives for God. In the same way, you too must continuously consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiah Jesus. (International Standard Version)
Three times (verses 6:2, 10, 11), Paul uses the term “as far as sin is concerned,” signaling that he understands that, by using the verb apothnesko, he is not referring to biological death. He is referring to another species of death, one related to our separation from sin, not life. We could say he is delineating his use of apothnesko to refer to the specific sort of death he is discussing in the passage.
Romans 6:7, often mishandled by translators, nails down the understanding that Paul uses apothnesko metaphorically: “For the person who has died has been freed from sin.” This is the only passage in the Scriptures where some translators render dikaioo with the verb “free[d].” In virtually all other instances where dikaioo appears, translators render it as “justify” (or a similar word).
The Disciples’ Literal New Testament properly renders Romans 6:7: “For the one having died has been declared-righteous from sin.” Plainly, Paul is not speaking of biological death, the result of which is not justification, not being declared righteous. The translators of this version recognize that Paul is not referring to biological death but to the death Christians experience at their baptism.
Their cue is verse 3, where Paul rhetorically asks, “Don’t we know that all who are ‘baptized into Christ Jesus [are] baptized into His death?’” In verse 7, as in all Romans 6, the apostle uses the verb apothnesko to refer to the first part of the act of baptism, the lowering of a person into the water, symbolizing death (that is, a burial).
Clearly, when Paul refers to Christians’ being “crucified with” Christ (verse 6), he is neither talking about literal crucifixion nor literal death. Rather, he is talking about death as the first part of the act of baptism, the descent (burial) into the water. Consistently in Romans 6, Paul uses apothnesko (“to die”) in this sense.
Thus “dying daily” is metaphoric, and not a physical death.
I accept the second phrase, but not the first.
Please illustrate the MISTRANSLATION you claim, else you'll be thought to be a Mormon.
Huh?
I think you are supposed to get a DIFFERENT body!
resort to elaborate demonic contrivances in seeking to deny what it plainly states when contradicting you.
Most agree that Paul did not write the book of Hebrews.
I never said or inferred that he did, which is not relevant to the inspiration of it.
since the third century this has been questioned, and the consensus among most modern scholars is that the author is unknown.
Which is part of your unattributed pasting from Wikipedia.
Hebrews 2:3 3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; , the author states that this “great salvation” was “declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard”. This is usually taken to indicate the author was a second-generation Christian.
As in the apostles teaching men such as Apollos, a instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord (Acts 18:25) who is a possible author. But also not relevant to the inspiration of it.
You will note that the scripture you cite, Hebrews 9:27 was added at a later date.
You will note that you can only wish that this is what evidence and your source itself testifies - a 2nd or 3rd century manuscript - to:
31–39 Heb 9:26–1 Corinthians 2:3
Consistent with your reasoning, since - besides other examples - Hebrews 8:8 is also found in a different folio than Hebrews 8:9, and 1 Cor 2:3–3:5 is also found in a different folio than 1 Cor 3:6, than all such must be later additions.
Which is also irrelevant to the issue, since Papyrus 46 (P. Chester Beatty II) is simply a copy of a previous manuscript , not the original mss.
Thus your contrived recourse is exposed as sophistry.
Apothnesko, the word used in Hebrews 9:27, is also the verb the apostle Paul uses six times in his discussion of baptism in Romans 6:1-11. To understand the implications of Hebrews 9:27, we need to consider this passage....signaling that he understands that, by using the verb apothnesko, he is not referring to biological death. He is referring to another species of death, one related to our separation from sin, not life. We could say he is delineating his use of apothnesko to refer to the specific sort of death he is discussing in the passage.
Apothnesko, the word used in Hebrews 9:27, is the verb used 111 times, and only a very few times is it used to describe anything other than biological death, evident by its context, and which is not the case at all in Hebrews 9:27, as instead it is only consistent with the literal death of the Lord Jesus in providing forgiveness and regeneration, which thus means that believers look to His second coming and the realization of full salvation, which a consistent them in Hebrews, etc.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Heb 9:27-28)
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. (Heb 10:35-37)
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. (Heb 10:38-39)
And "appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" also flows from the previous statement as to what is to be dealt with:
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.(Heb 6:2) Romans 6:7, often mishandled by translators, nails down the understanding that Paul uses apothnesko metaphorically...Thus “dying daily” is metaphoric, and not a physical death.:
Which is simply a desperate attempt to force a different sense into a literal one, all in order to support reincarnation and a false gospel of a "recycling level for souls that are growing but have not grown to transcend self or the physical body" to when "our soul actually expands to where the entire earth exists within you" with the “lifted or raised up” Jesus spoke of being raising your brain wave frequency above 40 Hz, with a purifying fire of esoterical Higher Consciousness, which deception is nothing new, as men such as Swedenborg, Roy Masters, etc. example.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:13-14)
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Revelation 20:10)
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